view raw text
Twenty Years Ago Today Chief Turf Events of Nov. 8, 1903 Sunday, no racing. Eugene Leigh will return to this country shortly for a brief visit. He has been fortunate abroad this year, having won in France somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred races with horses trained by him. The Aqueduct autumn meeting closed yesterday with the record of having been the means of distributing 166,655 among winning owners, a daily average of 16,060. Andrew Miller led the list through the prowess of his good colt Wild Thyme, which topped the list of winning horses. Mr. Milhrs total was ,035 and Wild Thyme won ,800 of this sum. James B. Haggin, who is recognized as the largest breeder of thoroughbreds in the world, has consigned forty-two head of youngsters from his Rancho del Paso Stud in California to the Fasig-Tipton sales in Lexington. Although some thousands of horses have been bred by Mr. Haggin, both at Elmerdorf and Rancho del Paso, this, is the first time that any of his western-bred yearlings will be sold in Kentucky. The negotiations looking to the location of the great race horse Heno in the stud at J. C. Graves Arbordale Farm have fallen through, owing to the owner of the son of Henry Young making arrangements to have the famous performer do stud duty in the East for the next three 3ears. These negotiations gave the first intimation that Heno would be retired from the turf at the end of this season.
